Word: rockland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since Willie and Joe, his unshaven, unforgettable infantrymen, won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1945, Cartoonist Bill Mauldin has done some syndicate drawing and free-lance writing, puddle-jumped in his private plane, and lives as an exurbanite in New York's Rockland County. He has also dabbled in Democratic politics but has never run for public office. Last week he decided...
...executive vice president of the metal division to president of Continental Can Co., No. 2 U.S. canmaker (after American Can), to succeed retiring President Hans A. Eggerss. General Lucius D. Clay continues as chairman. A strapping (6 ft. 3 in., 207 Ibs.), jovial packaging expert, Fogarty was born in Rockland, Mass., graduated from Harvard ('22). He joined Continental Can in 1929, became package designer, rose steadily. To keep Continental Can growing, Fogarty will continue diversifying into paper and plastic containers, expects to cut production costs with a new all-steel can for food products that replaces tin linings with...
...night last week, more than a carload of human travelers hooted back at Robert R. Young. The occasion was a commuters' meeting in New York's Rockland County to protest Young's plan to stop carrying passengers on the Central's 71-year-old West Shore line. The line meanders 142 miles along the Hudson between Weehawken (N.J.) and Albany (N.Y.), carries 4,000 commuters a day into Manhattan. According to Young, it is losing some $3.000,000 annually on passengers. At the meeting, a young matron strode determinedly onstage carrying a pig labeled "Young...
...tackles are Jim McGuinness, a 200-pound junior from Rumson, N.J., and John O'Brien, a 205-pound senior from Rockland, Mass. Joe Bianowicx, a 5'9" junior from Torrington, Conn., will be the other end opposite Josephson...
Last week visitors to the Farnsworth Art Museum at Rockland, Me. saw a sweeping vista of this tidy world. It had the pure newness of renderings on an architect's drawing board. Among the 53 Fransioli works were paintings of New England houses as scrupulous as portraiture. There were cityscapes of Boston and Cambridge in which the red bricks of Beacon Hill and Harvard glow with warmth, the Charles is mirrorlike and the winter sun, casting long shadows, is bright on the bare trees. His ruler-drawn interior, Vista from Within, suggests the antiseptic foyer of a brand...